George Orwell Quotes

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

I'm used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there's a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you're doing to succeed is all right.

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other

Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

The only stupidities that are not easily solved are those created by very intelligent men.